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Friday, June 27, 2025

How It All Went Down at Iran's Fordow

"You do not build a multilayered underground bunker complex with centrifuges and other equipment in a mountain for any peaceful purpose."
"[The military does not] grade our own homework [this is left for the U.S intelligence community to produce damage assessments]."
"We know that the trailing jets saw the first weapons function and the pilots stated, quote: 'This was the brightest explosion that I've ever seen. It literally looked like daylight'."
"When the crews went to work on Friday, they kissed their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they’d be home. Late on Saturday night, their families became aware of what was happening."
General Dan Caine, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a news conference with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine at the Pentagon on June 26.
 
General Caine revealed that the U.S. aerial Sunday raid on Iran -- Operation Midnight Hammer -- represented the culmination of a secret military project that originated in 2009, with the involvement of a small team comprised within the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The years from then to the present were spent studying Tehran's method in building its uranium enrichment underground lair. The end stage was to analyze the method whereby the U.S. military might dismantle the facility in the event that Iran attained the capacity to weaponize that uranium to produce atomic devices. 
 
Top officials in the Pentagon took the enlightened step of revealing details relating to the U.S. bombing of Iran's major nuclear facilities -- as well as details surrounding the anticipated and subsequent defence of a U.S. military base in Qatar from a retaliatory attack from Iran. Both events representing intricate operations holding little margin for error. During the briefing, no mention was made of Tehran's uranium stockpile's whereabouts. 
 
The drama that unfolded last weekend when six B-2 stealth bombers under cover of darkness, with each carrying two 30,000-pound bunker-busting rounds, dropped them on the Fordow nuclear enrichment facility, an event foreordained by the imminence of Tehran's successful exploitation of covertly enriching uranium to near-bomb-level and its stated intention to annihilate American ally Israel, when the IDF took the initiative to begin its preemptive bombing raids over Iran. That 15 years of work produced the armaments capable of penetrating the mountain fastness near Qom.
 
In that spectacular scenario, the initial bomb "forcibly removed" a concrete cap that had been emplaced by Iranian officials, meant to shield the complex from attack. The following eleven bombs fell precisely down and into mountaintop vents within, to maximize destruction. Each successive bomb penetrating deeper into the underground laboratories than the one preceding it. A seventh B-2 bomber carrying two additional bombs, it was explained, flew with the other six as a spare. It later released its two bombs on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, upon which all seven planes returned home to Missouri.
 
Known formally as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator -- or Guided Bomb Unit 57 -- the bombs were designed and built specifically for that mission; they released according to plan,  hit the intended targets, and exploded as intended -- only when they reached the depth of penetration each succeeded to, explained the general.
 
As these details were being  revealed on Thursday, President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth were voicing anger at the disclosure of a classified early assessment of the bombing raid in the form of a document produced by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, suggesting the attack may have set the Iranian nuclear program back by months, and not years.
 
In opposition, both President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth claimed the strike to have "obliterated" Tehran's nuclear development capacity, as opposed to General Caine's more selective language, awaiting a complete analysis by the U.S. intelligence community. President Trump was moved to direct the Pentagon news conference to "Fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots"
 
The truth of the matter is that the Islamic Republic of Iran suffered a long-due reckoning. One that was extremely costly to its aspirations of domination and conquest. Its technical nuclear installations have suffered grievous damage to its two-decade commitment to achieve nuclear status. As long as the current regime continues to control the Iranian government, state, military and populace with its iron grip, the strikes that laid waste to its plans while a severe blow, will only reinforce its determination to carry on.
 
The only solution to the presence of a terrorist-ridden theocracy that preys on its own people, stifling their lives and sacrificing their well-being to the government's drive to replace the Arab Sunni-Muslim majority dominance in the Middle East by its minority Persian Shi'ite-Muslim envisioned conquest, with the aid of its satellite terrorist proxies in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Gaza, is to destroy the leadership of the Republic, its Islamist-jihad-dedicated Islamic Republican Guard Corps, its Basij militias, and its terrorist proxies, to free the people of Iran to resume life in a civilized nation, that will be a threat to no one.
 
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